Mouthpiece for cigarettes.



N. S. XHEMEUS. moummca FOR CIGARUTES.

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Patented Dec.17,1918.

2 MAW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NIGHOLAS S. THEMELIS, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 THEMELIS BROS. COMPANY; INC., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

'MOUEHPIEGE FOR CIGARETTES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application filed February 16, 1915. Serial No. 8,494.

lb all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS S. THEME- Lis, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Mouthpieces for Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in mouth pieces for cigarettes.

By the use of my invention I am enabled to roduce a cigarette mouth piece or tip which will have new characteristics, in that the mouth piece itself will have a delicate and attractive taste besides having a delicate natural perfume which, in view of the proximity to the nose, will be quite appreciable and will convey or transfer its natural fragrance or perfume to the lips of the smoker. thereby greatly increasing the pleasure of the smoker of the cigarette to which it is attached; and furthermore my improved tip or mouth-piece will have a surface which, while possessing sufiicient smoothness and firmness to provide an effective mouth-piece. will have a delicate velvety and slightlyyielding or elastic property, which causes said mouth-piece or tip to give to the smoker greater satisfaction while at the same time the purely mental enjoyment or pleasure caused by smoking in general is increased by the knowledge that the tip is composed of a flower, and the smoker is constantly reminded of this during the course of the smokin of a cigarette with my mouth-piece attachec by the delicate fragrance, taste and feel within his lips of a mouth-piece formed of real flower petals, such as a rose leaf.

In following out my invention I employ a plant of the order of Rosaceae of the species of roses and preferably use one of the cultivated varieties havin the Richmond or the erican Beauty rose. These roses are soft, flexible and velvety and are of a sufficiently large size or variety to have petals of sufficient width to encircle the end of a cigarette and to provide a plurality of tips from one leaf. The petals are carefully separated from the rose, which are superimposed or laced one above the other upon a suitable at surface and a cutting die having suitable knives at its lower edge and of the conformation of a flattened out cigarette tip, is pressed downwardly and through the superimposed rose leaves so that a pin a red petal such as rality of such superimposed rose leaves is cut into cigarette tips simultaneously, this step being repeated as many times the size of the rose leaf will peiniit; the 'inarginal edge only of each end of the tip is then provided with a suitable adhesive such as paste and one end so prepared is pasted securely to the paper of the cigarette, the middle portion of the tip being unprovided with adhesive is simply caused to encircle snugly the end of the cigarette and the opposite end which as aforesaid is provided with paste is stuck either on to the paper or lapped over its abutting edge.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in plan of a rose leaf showing in dotted lines the lines of cleavage caused by a die to form a plurality of cigarette tips;

Fig. 2 is a section or strip of a rose leaf haying adhesives applied to the opposiie on s;

Fig. 3 is a view of a cigarette with my rose leaf tip in the process of being applied;

Fig. 4 shows a cigarette having the rose leaf applied;

Fig. 5 is a side view artly in section of my preferred form of die; and

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention, I take a cultivated variety of rose having a bright red petal, such as the Richmond or American Beauty. which rose is of a sufliciently large size or variety to have leaves, such as indicated by the numeral 1 in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing. These petals are of suiiicient width to encircle a cigarette and preferably of sufficient height or length to provide from one leaf or petal a plurality of mouthpieces or tips. The petal 1 is then severed transvcrsel of the veins of the petal, as illustrated by the dotted lines in said Fig. 1 to form a plurality of rose leaf portions of proper size to provide an individual mouth-piece or tip.

In the preferred method for carrying out my invention I superimpose upon one another a plurality of rose leaves or rose petals. place such superimposed leaves upon a suitable fiat surface or table and cutthe same into individual port-ions or strips 2 by means of a die 3 (Figs. and 6} which comprises a suitable handle l an open bail portion 5 contiguous to the handle a and knives or cutters 66"77 at. its lower end forming a rectangular box of a size conforming to the area of the strip or tip to he cut. This die is then pressed downwardly into the super imposed petals and will, of course, eat therefrom oblong portions of roper size to be used as individual or unit tips, such portions or tips being readily removable through the open unobstructed bail portion 8. The individual or unit tips are each then coated at the marginal edges of each end with a suitable adhesive such as paste or glue, as illustrated at 99 of Fig. 2 and are then secured to a cigarette 10 by sticking the marginal edge of one end to the paper thereof. as illustrated in Fig. 3. turning the body portion around the cigarette to encircle it. and then sticking the other adhesive end either to the paper abutting the first end or overlapping said first end. care being taken to press the petal firmly and to make it til the end of the cigarette very snugly.

I am thus enabled to attach a tip composed of an actual rose petal to the end of a cigarette without excessive glue and the consequent destruction of the yielding, velvety or elastic properties of the rose petal holder. and without making the same brittle. l [ind furthermore that when a rose tip formed of a strip cut from the petals of a rose in its natural fresh and undricd condition is so applied to the end of a cigarette. the said tip. when it dries out, will shrink onto and firmly grip the end of the cigarette and becomes substantially inseparable from the paper of the cigarette to which it is attached.

It will be obvious from the above that l have provided a tip or mouth-piece for cigarettes which has new characteristics and which produces in a cigarette a delicate and attractive taste, and a distinctive color besides a natural perfume which may be said to blend with the fiavor 'or aroma from the to bacco smoke and which, in view of the pro imity of the tip when in the mouth of the smoker to the nose. will be quite appreciable and will communicate to the lips a part of its natural fragrance or perfume. thus greatly increasing the pleasure of the smoker of the cigarette to which it is attached. It will furthermore be apparent that my improved tip or mouth-piece will have a surface which, while possessing suflicient smoothness and firmness to provide an effective mouth-piece will have delicate velvety and slightly yielding or elastic properties which maybe appreciated by the sense of touch and felt by the user when the cigarette is applied to his lips, thus causing said mouth-piece or tip to give to the smoker a greater sense of satisfaction than the smooth hard surface such as cork. straw and glazed paper heretofore used for this purpose, and at the same time the purely mental enjoy ment or pleasure caused by smoking is increased by the knowledge that the smoker is holding between his lips the pure rose petal. and such smoker is constantly reminded of this fact during the course of the smoking of a cigarette by the delicate fragrance. taste and feel within his lips of my improved mouth-piece.

Having described my invention. 1 claim:

1. As an article of manufacture. a cigarette provided with a mouthpiece composed of a petal portion of a rose.

As an article of manufacture, a cigarette provided with a tip formed of a strip cut from the petal of a rose.

3. As an article of manufacture, a cigarette provided with a. tip formed from a strip cut from the petals of a fresh rose and attached to the cigarette only at its marginal ends whereby the shrinkage in drying will cause the tip to firmly grip the paper eontignous to the end of the cigarette.

In Witness whereof. I have signed my name to the foregoing specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Niononis 'ri-ini'vmms.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK P. RANDOLPH. HELEN V. HOLMES.

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